By combining Hawaiʻi’s two main types of rainfall observations, experts can now gain a better understanding of the complex rainfall patterns to boost preparedness in natural disasters.
The partnership encourages faculty and staff collaboration, student exchange programs and the exchange of academic materials and publications.
This finding can be used to improve numerical weather prediction of nearshore cloud formation and rainfall patterns across the Hawaiian islands.
Three distinguished female faculty are further elevating the department’s research and prestige, making atmospheric waves in climate modeling and cloud microphysics.
In total, 14 subjects placed in the world's top 1%.
New research revealed that since the 1980s, category 4 and 5 hurricanes have been arriving three to four days earlier with each passing decade of climate change.
Five out of six La Niña events since 1998 have lasted more than one year, including an unprecedented triple-year event.
Dennis Trotter is the inaugural student in the Atmospheric Sciences Bachelor’s and Master’s program at UH Mānoa.
Christina Karamperidou was honored with an Early Career Scientist Award by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
The intake tube less than an inch in diameter and 25 feet long will provide vital data to track climate change through CO2 measurements.
